"The move follows Eisen’s return to ESPN more than a year ago after a stint on Roku. Since then, he has also anchored SportsCenter and hosted the podcast This Was SportsCenter: Stories from the Set."
Individual streams featuring election-night remarks attracted audiences, including 123,000 views for Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, 39,000 for South Carolina congressional candidate Annie Andrews, and 19,000 for Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton.
"We’ve done everything we can to establish our footprint in these local markets. Hire OMs and salespeople and make sure we have morning shows. Now we just got to hope it works. It’s been the big experiment to go back to doing radio the way it was."
"Howard Stern faced plenty of the same criticism throughout his career. He wasn't universally loved, nor did he need to be. He understood how to make people pay attention, and McAfee has figured out how to do the same in a different era."
"The big challenge with mainstream media is monetizing advertising for wrestling. There is a perception that wrestling fans are low class, uneducated, and low income. That's not reality. I can tell you firsthand because I've done thousands of mortgages for fans of my podcasts."
Individual streams featuring election-night remarks attracted audiences, including 123,000 views for Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, 39,000 for South Carolina congressional candidate Annie Andrews, and 19,000 for Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton.